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Definition
a remaining trace (little bit of something) that was previously abundant
- It was therefore necessary, before everything else, and at all risks, that I should cause all traces of the past to disappear—that I should destroy every material vestige; too much reality would always remain in my recollection.Chapters 67-68 (33% in)
- Albert seized them with a convulsive hand, tore them in pieces, and trembling lest the least vestige should escape and one day appear to confront him, he approached the wax-light, always kept burning for cigars, and burned every fragment.Chapters 83-84 (86% in)
There are no more uses of "vestige" in The Count of Monte Cristo.
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